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Review of new books on Christian moral practice/punishment/imprisonment

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"...both Logan and Redekop think that the underlying problem is our captivation with the idea of retributive punishment. Punishment, says Redekop, is "a historical artifact passed from one generation to the next without much thought and supported by force of habit and by unexamined assumptions and presuppositions." Logan asks why there is a presumption that criminal justice must issue in retributive punishment, and Redekop queries why there is a presumption that we should punish at all. Whereas Logan offers a theology of "good punishment," Redekop believes we should "remove punishment from our repertoire of responses to conflict" altogether." Article printed from:The Christian Century Magazine http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=6938 Books May 19, 2009 Punitive measures by Tobias Winright Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).